Actor. Awarded People's Artist of the Soviet Union (1985). Sos Sargsyan was born in Stepanavan, Lori region of Soviet Armenia in 1929. He moved to Yerevan in 1948 and started to perform at the Theater of the Young Spectator. After graduating from the Fine Arts and Theater Institute in 1954, he became a performer at the Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan until the independence of Armenia in 1991.
He also starred in over 40 films, mostly Armenian ones but also some Russian, most notably Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" (1972). In October 1991, a month after Armenia's independence was declared, he ran for president as the nominee of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, receiving 4.3% of the vote. In 1991 he established the Hamazgayin (Pan-National) Theater, which he headed until his death. He was rector of the Yerevan Cinema and Theatre Institute from 1997 to 2006. Though frail in his last years, Sargsyan never gave up acting and continued to appear on stage even just weeks before his death.
He also starred in over 40 films, mostly Armenian ones but also some Russian, most notably Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" (1972). In October 1991, a month after Armenia's independence was declared, he ran for president as the nominee of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, receiving 4.3% of the vote. In 1991 he established the Hamazgayin (Pan-National) Theater, which he headed until his death. He was rector of the Yerevan Cinema and Theatre Institute from 1997 to 2006. Though frail in his last years, Sargsyan never gave up acting and continued to appear on stage even just weeks before his death.
Actor. Awarded People's Artist of the Soviet Union (1985). Sos Sargsyan was born in Stepanavan, Lori region of Soviet Armenia in 1929. He moved to Yerevan in 1948 and started to perform at the Theater of the Young Spectator. After graduating from the Fine Arts and Theater Institute in 1954, he became a performer at the Sundukyan State Academic Theatre of Yerevan until the independence of Armenia in 1991.
He also starred in over 40 films, mostly Armenian ones but also some Russian, most notably Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" (1972). In October 1991, a month after Armenia's independence was declared, he ran for president as the nominee of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, receiving 4.3% of the vote. In 1991 he established the Hamazgayin (Pan-National) Theater, which he headed until his death. He was rector of the Yerevan Cinema and Theatre Institute from 1997 to 2006. Though frail in his last years, Sargsyan never gave up acting and continued to appear on stage even just weeks before his death.
He also starred in over 40 films, mostly Armenian ones but also some Russian, most notably Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" (1972). In October 1991, a month after Armenia's independence was declared, he ran for president as the nominee of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, receiving 4.3% of the vote. In 1991 he established the Hamazgayin (Pan-National) Theater, which he headed until his death. He was rector of the Yerevan Cinema and Theatre Institute from 1997 to 2006. Though frail in his last years, Sargsyan never gave up acting and continued to appear on stage even just weeks before his death.
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